JPH0440690Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to a pinball game machine, such as a pachinko game machine, in which the game is played by bouncing balls.
Specifically, there is a front plate attached to the front frame side so as to be openable and closable, a ball outlet formed at a predetermined position on the front plate, and a ball outlet provided on the front side of the front plate to allow the stored balls to be hit. A batted ball supply device comprising a batted ball supply gutter that guides the batted balls to a ball outlet, and a ball feeding member that supplies batted balls one by one from the batted ball outlet to a batted ball launch position in conjunction with the batting operation. Regarding ball game machines.

[Prior Art] In this type of pinball game machine, the one that has been generally known from the past includes, for example, the
There were those described in Publication No. 52880 and Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 57-116272. In this conventional pinball game machine, a front plate is attached to the front frame side of the pinball game machine so that it can be opened and closed, and a ball waiting gutter is provided on the front side of the front plate. The balls stored in the ball are guided to the ball outlet formed at a predetermined position on the front plate, and by the action of the ball feeding member of the ball supply device, the balls from the ball outlet are linked to the ball hitting operation. The configuration was such that the balls were supplied one by one to the ball launch position.

[Problems to be solved by the invention] On the other hand, in this type of conventional pinball game machine,
The lateral movement path is provided to guide the batted balls that have entered the batted ball supply device from the batted ball outlet in the lateral direction and to move them to the ball feeding member. However, there is the disadvantage that the batted ball supply device becomes larger, which increases the weight and material costs due to the increased size, and the assembly work that requires assembling the larger batted ball supply device. The disadvantage was that it caused inconvenience in handling at times. Moreover, in the conventional system, after the ball has once moved laterally on the lateral movement path, it is subjected to the feeding action of the ball feeding member, and the ball that has not yet received the feeding action of the ball feeding member is lateral. There was an inconvenience that the ball was likely to get stuck during the travel route. In particular, since the batted ball supply device is located on the back side of the front plate, even if a ball stops hitting the ball, it cannot be seen from the player's side, and the player may be unable to hit the ball due to unknown reasons. I had the inconvenience of feeling irritated when the situation occurred. Moreover, in order to eliminate the stuck balls, employees of the gaming parlor must carry out predetermined restoration work, which has the disadvantage that the players are unable to play during that time, further increasing their frustration.

The present invention was devised in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and its purpose is to reduce the size of the ball supply device and to prevent the ball from stopping, that is, from the ball outlet to the side of the ball supply device, which is particularly irritating to players. To provide a pinball game machine capable of reducing as much as possible the number of balls that enter the ground and stop.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention provides a front plate attached to the front frame side so as to be openable and closable, a ball outlet formed at a predetermined position on the front plate, and a ball outlet provided on the front side of the front plate. a ball feeding member that supplies the batted balls from the batted ball outlet one by one to the batted ball firing position side in conjunction with the batting operation; A pinball game machine comprising a hit ball supply device, wherein the hit ball supply device is removably installed on the back side of the front plate in a state where the ball feeding member is located in front of the hit ball outlet. A hit ball release port for releasing the hit balls sent by the ball sending action of the ball sending member toward the hit ball firing position is formed at a position near a lateral side of the ball sending member. It is characterized by

[Function] According to the present invention, since the ball feeding member is located in front of the batted ball outlet, the batted balls supplied from the batted ball outlet into the batted ball supply device are not moved in any lateral direction. It is supplied to the ball feeding member and receives the feeding action by the ball feeding member. The balls sent one by one by the ball feeding member are ejected from the ball ejection opening formed in the lateral vicinity of the ball feeding member toward the ball ejection position side.

[Example] Hereinafter, an example of this invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a front view of the entire pachinko game machine 10 to which an embodiment of this invention is applied, and shows a glass door 12.
The front plate 14 is shown in an open state.

Referring to FIG. 1, a game board 18 is detachably attached to the front frame 16 of the pachinko game machine 10 from the back side thereof. A ball firing mechanism including a ball firing rail 20 and a ball rod 22 is provided on the lower right side of the game board 18 (lower right side when viewed from the front side). A glass door 12 and a front plate 14 are attached to the front frame 16 so as to be openable and closable. At the left end of the back side of the front plate 14 (the left end in FIG. 1), a ball supply device 24 according to an embodiment of this invention is provided. The batted ball supply device 24 transfers the balls stored in a batted ball supply tray (not shown), which includes a batted ball waiting gutter provided on the front surface side of the front plate 14, one by one to the firing rail 20.
This is a device for feeding the ball to the hitting position. In addition,
In FIG. 1, 26 is an operation handle for operating the batted ball firing mechanism, 28 is a surplus ball tray,
This is already a well-known member in pachinko gaming machines.

FIGS. 2 to 5 are diagrams for explaining a ball supply device 24 according to an embodiment of the present invention. In particular, FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the ball supply device 24 provided on the back side of the front plate 14, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the ball supply device 24 attached to the front plate 14.

Referring to FIGS. 2 and 3, the ball supply device 24 includes a main body 30 and a ball feeding member 32. As shown in FIG.
The main body 30 has a ball outlet 3 formed on the front plate 14.
4. In other words, it has a path (not shown) for receiving the pachinko balls flowing out from the terminal end 34 of the ball waiting gutter and guiding the pachinko balls to the firing position of the firing rail 20 (see FIG. 1). The pachinko balls flowing out from the ball outlet 34 pass through the above-mentioned path inside the main body 30 and are ejected from the ball supply port 36, which is an example of a ball discharge port formed in the main body 30, to the ejection position of the ejection rail 20.

At the rear of the main body 30 (to the right in Fig. 2) is 1.
A pair of protruding bearing pieces 38a and 38b are provided, and the bearing pieces 38a and 38b have bearing holes 40a and 38b.
40b is formed.

On the other hand, the ball feed member 32 is provided with a shaft insertion hole 42, and this portion is fitted to the bearing pieces 38a, 38b of the main body 30.
8b, and a pivot shaft 44 is passed through the bearing holes 40a, 40b and the shaft insertion hole 42, so that the ball feed member 32 is connected to the main body 30 so as to be freely swingable. The ball feed member 32 is provided with a ball feed projection 46 on the upper side, and its lower surface serves as a contact surface 48 against which a longitudinal member, which will be described later, comes into contact.
In the natural state, a weight 50 is provided so as to be positioned by rotating downward around the shaft insertion hole 42. The ball feed protrusion 46 is inserted from the ball outlet 34 to the main body 30.
The pachinko balls that roll into the ball feed protrusion 46 are
The ball conveying member 32 receives the pachinko balls one by one and rotates downward to roll the received pachinko balls to the ball supply port 36.

On the side of the main body 30 that contacts the front plate 14 (front side), there are projecting pieces 52 and 54 on the left and right, respectively.
is provided. A fixing member 58 is rotatably attached to the back surface of the protruding piece 52 with a mounting screw 56, and a fixing pin insertion hole 60 is formed. The protruding piece 54 includes a recess that is recessed from the front side where it contacts the front plate 14 to the rear side.

On the back side of the front plate 14, the protruding pieces 52, 5 are provided.
4, a fixing pin 64 and a positioning boss 66 are provided. Then, the positioning recess provided on the protruding piece 54 and the positioning boss 66 provided on the front plate 14 are engaged with each other, and the ball supply device 2
4 is determined, the fixing pin 64 is inserted into the fixing pin insertion hole 60, and the fixing member 58 is fixed.
By engaging the fixed pin 64 with the fixed pin 64, the ball supply device 24 is reliably attached to a desired position on the front plate 14.

This will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 4, 5 and 6. When attaching the batted ball supply device 24 to the front plate 14, first, the recess 67 of the protruding piece 54 is engaged with the positioning boss 66 protruding from the front plate 14. As a result, one mounting position of the batted ball supply device 24 to the front plate 14 is determined. Thereafter, the fixing pin 64 protruding from the front plate 14 is passed through the fixing pin insertion hole 60 formed in the protruding piece 52.

The fixing pin 64 more preferably has a positioning boss 69 similar to the positioning boss 66 at its base. Further, the protruding piece 52 is formed with a recess 71 that can be engaged with the positioning boss 69 thereof.

Positioning boss 69 of fixing pin 64 and protruding piece 52
is engaged with the recess 71, and second positioning is performed. In this way, the ball supply device 24 is precisely positioned at two locations. Therefore, there is no fear that the ball outlet 34 and the batted ball supply device 24 will be misaligned, or that the contact area between the contact surface 48 of the ball feeding member 32 and a longitudinal member to be described later will be misaligned.

After the ball supply device 24 is positioned as described above, the fixing pin insertion hole 60 of the protrusion piece 52 is inserted.
A fixing pin 64 and a fixing member 58 protruding rearward from
The fixing hook portion 68 is changed from the state shown in FIG. 4 to the state shown in FIG.
It is engaged as shown in the figure. Thereby, the batted ball supply device 24 is firmly and reliably attached to the front plate 14.

When removing the batted ball supply device 24 from the front plate 14 for cleaning, etc. or in the event that balls become jammed, the engagement between the fixing member 58 and the fixing pin 64 is released as shown in FIG. Then, the ball supply device 24 can be easily removed.

As described above, the batted ball supply device 24 is connected to the front plate 14.
A feature of this embodiment is that it is configured to be detachable from the holder.

In the description of the above embodiment, the positioning bosses 66 and 69 are provided on the front plate 14 side, and the recesses 67 and 71 for receiving the positioning bosses are provided on the batted ball supply device 24.
Although it is provided on the side, these may be reversed. That is, the protruding pieces 52 and 54 of the ball supply device 24 may be provided with positioning bosses that protrude toward the front plate, and corresponding recesses may be provided on the front plate 14 to which the positioning bosses engage.

Note that the positioning boss 69 on the fixed pin 64 side is
This is not necessarily necessary, and can be omitted since the position can be fixed by the fixing pin 64 and the fixing pin insertion hole 60.

FIG. 7 shows an overall view of the back side of the front plate 14 to which the batted ball supply device 24 is attached, and a longitudinal member 70 that contacts the contact surface 48 of the batted ball supply device 24 and drives the batted ball supply device 24. It is a figure showing a relationship. As shown in the figure, the upper end edge of the longitudinal member 70 is brought into contact with the contact surface 48 of the ball feeding member 32 of the batted ball supply device 24, and the ball feeding member 32 swings up and down as the longitudinal member 70 moves up and down. I'm starting to do that.

In FIG. 7, reference numeral 72 is a ball-striking rod position regulating rubber that restricts the movement of the ball-striking rod 22.

FIGS. 8 to 10 show the batting rod drive device 74.
They are a rear view, a front view, and a front side perspective view, respectively, with the front side of the pachinko game machine facing forward, for explaining. Referring to FIGS. 8 to 10, the longitudinal member 70 is attached to a mounting board 76 so as to be slidable in the vertical direction. A contact roller 80 is provided at its lower end portion, and the contact roller 80 is received by a contact recess 78 formed in the ball hitting rod 22. The ball hitting operation of the ball batting rod 22, that is, the ball hitting rod 22 is connected to the spindle 8.
2 in the direction AB in FIG. 8, the contact recess 78 also moves, and the elongated member 70 is slid in the vertical direction accordingly.

In addition, in FIGS. 8 to 10, 84 is a ball-striking motor, 86 is a ball-striking rod position regulating rubber, 88 is a ball-striking force adjusting member, 90 is a drive blade, 92 is a rotating link portion, 94 is an engagement pin, Reference numeral 96 denotes a ball hitting force biasing section, which is a member already known in pachinko game machines.

Next, the operation of the batted ball supply device 24 of one embodiment of this invention will be explained, including the operation of the batting ball rod drive device 74.

The operation handle 26 (see FIG. 1) is operated,
When the ball-striking operation is started, the ball-striking motor 84 (eighth
) starts rotating, and the drive blade 90 rotates at a constant speed. Then, the drive blade 90 and the engagement pin 94 are intermittently engaged, and accordingly, the rotation link portion 9
2 and the batting rod 2 fixed to the rotation link part 92
2 is rotated about the support shaft 82 in the direction B in FIG. The rod 22 momentarily moves in the direction A in FIG. In this way, the ball hitting rod 22 is reciprocated in the direction of arrow AB (FIG. 8) at a constant speed.
At this time, when the ball hitting rod 22 is rotated in the direction of arrow B, the ball hitting rod 22 pushes up the longitudinal member 70. Contact recess 78 provided in batting rod 22
and the longitudinal member 70 are engaged with each other via the contact roller 80, so that no large frictional force is exerted between them due to the action of the contact roller 80, and the longitudinal member 70
is pushed up smoothly.

When the longitudinal member 70 is pushed up, the contact surface 48 of the ball feeding member 32 is pushed up, and the ball feeding member 3
2 moves upward around a pivot shaft 44 (see FIG. 2). Accordingly, the pachinko balls that rolled into the main body 30 from the ball outlet 34 when the ball feeding member 32 was positioned downward and were received by the ball feeding protrusion 46 roll down from the ball feeding protrusion 46 and the balls The ball rolls from the supply port 36 to the ball hitting position on the ball launching rail 20.

Thereafter, the ball hitting rod 22 is instantaneously rotated in the direction of arrow A (see FIG. 8), and the pachinko balls at the ball hitting position on the firing rail 20 are hit by the ball hitting rod 22 and guided to the firing rail 22. and is fired onto the game board 18.

Thereafter, when the ball hitting rod 22 moves in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 8, the longitudinal member 70 moves downward under its own weight.
Therefore, the ball feeding member 32 supported by the tip of the longitudinal member 70 also rotates downward under the weight of the weight 50 and returns to its initial state. For this reason,
One pachinko ball rolls into the main body 30 from the ball outlet 34 (see FIG. 2) and is supported by the upper surface of the ball feeding projection 46.

[Effects of the invention] As described above, the present invention positions the ball feeding member in front of the ball exit and eliminates the lateral movement path for horizontally transporting the balls entering from the ball exit to the ball feeding member. In addition, since the hit ball discharge port for releasing the hit balls sent by the ball feeding member to the hit ball firing position side is formed near the lateral side of the ball sending member, the batted ball supply device can be It can be made smaller, which makes it possible to reduce weight and material costs, and when assembling the ball supply device, since the ball supply device to be assembled is small, it is easier to handle and work efficiency is improved. .

Moreover, since the hit ball that enters from the hit ball exit is directly subjected to the ball feeding action by the ball feeding member without moving in the left-right direction, the hit ball that enters from the hit ball exit and receives the ball feeding action is lateral. It is possible to prevent balls from clogging on the travel path, and to reduce as much as possible the number of balls stuck that cause players to feel particularly irritated, that is, the number of balls that enter the ball supply device from the ball outlet.

In addition, since the batted ball supply device is removably installed on the back side of the front plate, the batted ball supply device can be easily removed for cleaning or in the unlikely event of a ball clogging, making it easy to perform maintenance. Cheap.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an overall front view of a pachinko game machine to which an embodiment of this invention is applied. FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view showing the relationship between the ball supply device and the front plate of one embodiment of the invention. FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which the ball supply device according to an embodiment of the invention is attached to the front plate. FIG. 4, FIG. 5, and FIG. 6 are diagrams for explaining the mounting structure of the batted ball supply device. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the engagement relationship between the batted ball supply device and the actuating member. FIG. 8, FIG. 9, and FIG. 10 are a front view, a rear view, and a perspective view, respectively, for explaining the ball hitting rod drive mechanism. In the figure, 10 is a pachinko game machine, 20 is a firing rail, 22 is a batting rod, 24 is a batting ball supply device,
30 is the main body, 32 is a ball feeding member, 34 is a ball outlet,
36 is a ball supply port, 46 is a ball feeding projection, 58 is a fixing member, 62 and 67 are recesses, 64 is a fixing pin, 6
6 and 69 are positioning bosses, 68 is a fixing hook part,
70 indicates a longitudinal member.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claim for Utility Model Registration] (1) A front plate attached to the front frame so as to be openable and closable, a ball outlet formed at a predetermined position on the front plate, and a ball storage provided on the front side of the front plate. a ball waiting gutter that guides the balls being hit to the ball outlet, and a ball feeding member that feeds the balls from the ball outlet one by one to the ball firing position in conjunction with the ball hitting operation. A pinball game machine comprising a hit ball supply device, the hit ball supply device being detachably provided on the back side of the front plate with the ball feeding member positioned in front of the hit ball outlet, A hit ball discharge port that discharges the hit balls sent by the ball feeding action of the ball sending member toward the hit ball firing position,
A pinball game machine, characterized in that the ball feeding member is formed at a position near a side portion of the ball feeding member. (2) The batted ball supply device is provided with a mounting member to be attached to the back side of the front plate, and the back side of the front plate is provided with a mounting member that corresponds to the mounting member provided on the batt ball supply device. , a pinball game machine according to claim 1, which is provided with an attached member. (3) At least two mounting members of the batted ball supply device are provided, one including a positioning member that determines a position with the front plate, and the other fitting with a mounted member provided on the front plate. The pinball game machine according to claim 2, which is characterized by including a fixing member for fixing both.